Kurpfalzbräu Helles |Plankstadt, Germany Another Helles. Out of 7 brews 3 have been Helles. After opening top of the box to free yesterday’s brew I saw a Helles that was featured in the Man Bag. Not sure if drinking a helles every few days allows me to appreciate which ones are more appealing or make comparisons as to which I like better (not all stouts are created equal). I’m not going to spend the time filling out a silly scorecard so I can rank them and use some nebulous score to determine which I liked better. So, here goes. Pale straw color (like a helles). Clear as can be (like a helles). Yummy real cold. An edge of bitter hoppiness but not on the tongue. A bit of sweetness on the tip of the tongue. Not an after dinner drink because you’ll be too full to enjoy. Maybe later in…

It’s Day 5 of the Brewer’s Advent Calendar and to me this is the beer I wanted to have when I bought this Advent Calendar. Not this specific brand but this taste. I couldn’t help but adapt Mel Brook’s line from Space Balls “May the Schwartz be with you.” Kraftbierwerkstatt’s Der Schwarze Bock is dark, roast, smooth, chocolaty. Yummy. Now under full disclosure this was kind of a beer slushy. I but it in the freezer to get it chilled and took too long to take it out. Beer’s freezing point is slightly lower than water but beer has water in it. So the beer was in a supercooled state. When you disturb the supercooled state, like opening a can or bottle and letting the CO2 in the mixture do it’s thing then the freezing point increases beyond the current temperature and the beer will start to freeze. It was…